Having acquired an Ultra recently it has had the positive effect of getting me back into running, and thus using the Running Workout app. After a small number of runs I've run into a frustration which I don't know if it's a setting tweak needed or a by design thing.
I set a 5km distance with a pace of 5:50 from my last run as a reference point to beat. I can't really read the screen when running so set it to announce alerts over my AirPods for distance (each 1km segment) plus Rolling Distance. I set off and each of the first 3 km I run are a fairly consistent 5:34-5:37 time, but I slow down on my fourth and record a 5.49.
So the Distance announcements are fine but what I'm noticing is that the Rolling Distance announcements basically just repeat the Distance ones and announce what the last km was. Thus at the end of the 4th it tells me my Rolling Distance is 5.49 when for the whole run it is evidently quicker than that. Now I noticed this issue with previous runs and had the Pace option set to Average, but got this same result - a repetition of the last km rather than what my real pace over the duration of the entire run is. For the run tonight I set it to Rolling to see if there was a difference and no, same result.
On my final km I start to get Behind Pace announcements after that had been silent for the entirety of the run. It was telling me that I was running a second or two behind pace which I was by this stage, but again this did not seem to be taking into account the entirety of the run - just the current pace.
When I finished I really had no idea what to expect time wise and was pleasantly surprised to find that I was 50 seconds quicker, and thus an average of 5:40s - however it was frustrating to only know this when I stopped and could read it on my screen. So the question is how you can get it to announce your ongoing average entire run pace rather than just whatever you attained on your last km - which you have already been told via its split anyway.
I set a 5km distance with a pace of 5:50 from my last run as a reference point to beat. I can't really read the screen when running so set it to announce alerts over my AirPods for distance (each 1km segment) plus Rolling Distance. I set off and each of the first 3 km I run are a fairly consistent 5:34-5:37 time, but I slow down on my fourth and record a 5.49.
So the Distance announcements are fine but what I'm noticing is that the Rolling Distance announcements basically just repeat the Distance ones and announce what the last km was. Thus at the end of the 4th it tells me my Rolling Distance is 5.49 when for the whole run it is evidently quicker than that. Now I noticed this issue with previous runs and had the Pace option set to Average, but got this same result - a repetition of the last km rather than what my real pace over the duration of the entire run is. For the run tonight I set it to Rolling to see if there was a difference and no, same result.
On my final km I start to get Behind Pace announcements after that had been silent for the entirety of the run. It was telling me that I was running a second or two behind pace which I was by this stage, but again this did not seem to be taking into account the entirety of the run - just the current pace.
When I finished I really had no idea what to expect time wise and was pleasantly surprised to find that I was 50 seconds quicker, and thus an average of 5:40s - however it was frustrating to only know this when I stopped and could read it on my screen. So the question is how you can get it to announce your ongoing average entire run pace rather than just whatever you attained on your last km - which you have already been told via its split anyway.
